Improvement in skates



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Letters Patent No. $14,433, dated August 31, 1869.

IMPRVEMENT SKATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN H. NOAKEs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved mode offastening the Club-Skates to the shoe, and which I call and style The Reversible Club- Skate Fastening, .and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the, letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a side view;

Figure 2 is a bottom view;

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view;

l Figure 4 shows thev heel of the shoe, with my application, on the .inner side of a metallic plate;

Figure 5 is a partial longitudinal section, showing the central support, with its lcey-hole-shaped slot; and

Figure 6 is a View of the right and left-hand screw,

`with a groove in its centre.

My invention relates to improvementsin the method of fastening ClubSkates to the foot, hereinafter more fully set forth. l l

To enable others skilled inthe art to make and use my invention, I now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct my skate-runner in any of known forms used for Club-Skates, and at the centre-support thereof, near the top, I construct a slot, shaped like an ordinary key-hole, or, rather, two holes bored or lapped into one, the upper being somewhat larger than the lower one.

I then attach the plate for the forward rest, having on its under or bottom side, opposite to the slot aforesaid, a solid dovetailed groove for the working of the clamps, as in ordinary use.

In the accompanying drawingsil is the centre support, having the key-hole slot made in its upper end, the upper part of the slot, on., fig. 5, being made larger than the lower part, n,

4s is a right and left screw, which is readily inserted into the upper part of slot, m, as far as the groove g, g. 6, when it is let down into the lower part of the slot, n, whereby the screw is held lirmly in place, without any liability lof getting out of place.

The screw also passes through the lugs or projections l kon theclamps b b, and by turning the screw, said clamps are drawn together easily, to grasp the foot.

The clamps b b slide in dovetailed grooves in the foot-rest.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I clam as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

rIhe central support d, provided with the key-hole slot m n, in combination with the clamps b b, moving in dovetail grooves, and right and left screw s, with a groove, g, at its centre, all arranged, constructed, and

operated in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN H. NOAKES. Witnesses:

B. D.. SPARKS, I. STEWART. 

